166 Natural History in the English Counties. 
Salix pentandra - - Binley. 
Osmainda regalis - - Coleshill Heath. 
Botrychium Lunaria - Oversley Hill, Mr. Purton. 
Lycopodium clavatum - Coleshill Heath. 
inundatum - - Shores of Coleshill Pool. 
Selago - - Bog below Coleshill Pool. 
Aspidium lobatum * - Allesley, Meriden, &c. 
Oredpteris - - Coleshill Heath, &c. 
Thelypteris - - Ina boggy pit, Allesley. 
Pilularia globulifera - Coleshill Pool. 
Tétraphis pellucida -  -  Allesley. 
Trich6stomum fontinaldides In the Avon at Warwick and Bidford. 
Neckeéra heteromalla - Allesley. 
Hyprum loreum ~ - Woods, Allesley. 
dendroides - - Allesley, &c. 
alopectrum - - Allesley, &c. 
Bryum bicolor - - Walls of Warwiek Castle. 
aureum - - Shores of Coleshill Pool. 
Peziza epidéndra + - Allesley, Coleshill. 
punicea - - Coleshill Heath. 
Nidularia striata - - Allesley. 
lae‘vis - - Coleshill. 
Allesley, Coleshill. 
Reticularia Lycopérdon 
for the following reasons :— In some districts (e. g. in some parts of North 
Wales, and in the neighbourhood of the lakes in the north of England) it 
is the most prevailing kind, constituting, as it were, the staple growth of the 
country, almost to the exclusion of the other species, Q. Robur. In these 
situations we should hardly suspect that the trees had been planted by the 
hand of man, nor have they that appearance; but, on the contrary, seem to 
be the spontaneous produce of the soil in which they grow. I have also 
observed, in various places, trees of the sessile-flowered oak, which, I should 
conclude, must be of some hundred years’ growth. In this county, which 
formed a part of the woody and extensive district, anciently called the 
Forest of Arden, the oak in question is chiefly to be met with im woods, 
some of which almost entirely consist of this species, and exhibit evident 
marks of great antiquity, as well in other respects, as in the large hollow 
stools of oak which frequently occur in them. It is by no means an im- 
probable supposition, that our Warwickshire woods may, at least in some 
instances, be portions of the original unreclaimed land, existing now in 
nearly the same state as before the country was cleared to its present extent 
for agricultural purposes. The reviewer, above referred to, very justly re- 
probates the practice of cultivating Quércus sessiliflora as a tree, on account 
of the comparative worthlessness of its timber. Where woods, however, 
are periodically cut, and chiefly employed as copse, and the oak poles (with 
the exception of such samplers as are left for timber) felled at about twenty 
years’ growth for the use of the coal pits, the sessile-flowered oak, as being 
of quicker and cleaner growth, answers the purpose well, and is perhaps pre- 
ferable to the other. So at least our woodmen would argue, who have a 
common saying among them, that “ a quick ninepence is better than a slow 
shilling.” I will only add, that this spurious species will attain to a very 
large size, and is extremely handsome in its foliage. As a timber tree, how- 
ever, its culture cannot be recommended; and more especially ought the 
“impostor” to be extirpated from the royal forests and other woods which 
are to supply our navy. 
* Very common in this county, but generally confounded with the nearly 
allied species, A. aculeatum, from which, however, it is quite distinct. Ray’s 
Synopsis may be usefully consulted on this fern. 
